Minor Detail

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn...
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Author: Adania Shibli
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Language: English
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Minor Detail by Shibli, Adania

Minor Detail

$188.51

Minor Detail

$188.51
Author: Adania Shibli
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba--the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people--and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand.

Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.



Author: Adania Shibli
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/26/2020
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780811229074


Award: National Book Awards - Finalist
Award: Man Booker International Prize - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/18/2020

About the Author
Shibli, Adania: - Adania Shibli was born in Palestine in 1974, holds a Ph.D. from the University of East London, and has published three novels in Arabic. She splits her time between Berlin and Jerusalem.Jaquette, Elisabeth: - Elisabeth Jaquette is a translator from the Arabic and Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).

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